“Why can’t DC have a major league baseball team? Because then Baltimore would want one too.”
— Anonymous caller to a morning radio program opining on the subject of DC’s continuing efforts to attract a major league baseball franchise.
BTW: Last night’s game: Yankees 11, Baltimore 3 in Baltimore.
It’s been 40-ish and raining sideways here for a week. Completely miserable. Yes, I can hear my friends in the UK getting indignant from here but the point is: DC in April is normally about 20 degrees F warmer than that and after solid week of rain I’m ready for my happy pill now. Well, I got it yesterday.
A beautiful rainbow just at sunset, full spectrum too (it’s not often we get the purple at this latitude). I could see both ends of it as we drove through Rock Creek Park and I stuck my head out the window like a puppy, getting spattered with rain and wishing I had a camera.
Just a little bit of physics and the week got so much better.
Title taken from The Rainbow Connection by Jim Henson
…that brown M&Ms actually taste brown? I understand, objectively, that the color of the candy coating really has no flavor but what is it in my brain that imbues the different colors with slightly different tastes?
In my travels, both in person and electronic, I’ve made quite a few friends for whom English is their first language but not the brand of English we speak in the United States. It’s always a joy to get into a language discussion with someone from the UK and someone from Australia, though I wouldn’t recommend doing so at the same time unless copious amounts of alcohol are readily available.
I write a bit and in working with my friend and editor (one of those UK English speakers) I’m learning rather a lot about how malleable the “immutable” laws of punctuation I learned in school really are.
Hence, this giggler from Michael Quinion’s “World Wide Words”
Perhaps the best argument for the serial comma is that apocryphal book dedication: “To my parents, Ayn Rand and God”.
Hey, it made me laugh right out loud.
Learn more about the Oxford/Harvard comma.
This
was my daily fortune at MyWay.com today.
I’m not sure there is much that is farther from the truth.